Peigi Oighrig MacIver (middle) has written many songs over the years. She was born in the village of Kneep in Uig in 1926, and the gift of the bard ran through her family… Her Grand Uncle ‘Domhnall Donn’ wrote many songs and verses in his day, as did her brother Aonghas Coinneach.

Sgìre Uige was the first song Peigi wrote as a young girl living in Uig. On the Sunday after the death of her uncle Domhnall Donn, she went for a walk up the hill at the back of her house, and as she sat there taking in the views around her, the words of the song came to her in an instant. She didn’t write the song down for years after that, she said that the words remained locked in her head for a long time… but her friends and family around her eventually persuaded her to write them down.